CVE-2009-2832: Apple Mac OS X Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in FTP Server in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a CWD command specifying a pathname in a deeply nested hierarchy of directories, related to a "CWD command line tool."

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.6.1; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …

Published 2009-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.